ABSTRACT

This chapter serves as a very brief introduction to the principal remedies that equity uses. In a book about equity I think it a little remiss to overlook the broader range of equitable remedies, although many trusts law courses and most books on the law of trusts – as opposed to those on equity more generally – ignore these doctrines. The reason for their being overlooked is that trusts law has become so technical and so large a subject that it bursts out of the limits of a university course in itself, whereas equitable remedies do not correlate easily with the law of trusts and tend to be considered either as procedural devices or remedies that can equally well be taught as part of the law of contract (as in the cases of specific performance, rescission and rectification).